You may experience fluctuating emotions today and find yourself embroiled in family conflicts or disagreements at work. Since this can cause highs and lows in your emotional state, you may find it helpful to create a mental trigger that helps keep your emotions calm and stable today. Simply spend some quiet time alone in meditation and allow yourself to get into a relaxed state of mind. Pay close attention to the feelings you experience in this state of calm, and choose a word to describe them, such as “peace” or “harmony.” Repeat this word to yourself several times, connecting it mentally to the inner calmness you feel. If you begin to feel frustrated or stressed during the course of your day, simply pause, close your eyes, recall the peaceful feelings, and recite your trigger word to instantly feel balanced again.

Training our minds with meditative techniques helps us control our emotional responses and consciously choose our moods and mind-set. While it is natural to feel tense or overwhelmed in emotionally charged situations, we can learn to take greater control over our emotional responses rather than allowing them to control us. By using the power of our conscious minds to create a mental trigger for feelings of peace and harmony, we are able to detach from troubling emotional responses. This helps keep our minds clear to work through conflicts, solve problems, and make our interactions with others more productive again. With conscious focus, you can bring your emotions under control and create harmony in any situation today.